Extra Classic hail from home-of-counterculture San Francisco. Some of the six band members have previously played with The Papercuts and Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, and as recently as 2007 were supporting Modest Mouse and Conor Oberst. So far, so…
Live | Josh T. Pearson @ The Barbican + a free Christmas download
Josh T. Pearson’s Last of the Country Gentlemen was released this year to widespread acclaim, with this very website describing it as a ‘sparse, delicate and unrelenting trawl through the darker recesses of the soul’. It has found itself in…
Singles Round-up | We Are Augustines, Mozart Parties, Vadoinmessico, The Twilight Sad, Sam Brookes and First Aid Kit
We Are Augustines – Book of James This reminds me of the emotional fervour of Mumford & Sons with less righteousness, more of an incantation than a battlecry. Inspired by family and loss, it’s a eulogy to lead singer Billy…
Live | Ellen & The Escapades @ The Stereo, York
Ellen and her Escapades are finally assembled on stage and ready to play. The hum of the crowd dies down and she steps up to the microphone, takes a breath and…another song comes on the PA system. With a little…
EP | The Lost Cavalry – Snow City Radio
What sort of songs would you like on your car radio in Snow City? Assuming everything in Snow City is covered in snow, like some Christmas film vision of New York and that I get to wear one of those…
EP | Darren Hayman – Christmas In Haworth
The Christmas album comes with all sorts of pitfalls in which to fall headfirst or to stand in proudly, arms akimbo. Even the most earnest of performers can put out some jingly-jangly tune to suit the season of merriment. But…